Office and workplace

Sewing Hope offers the first account of a bold challenge to apparel-industry sweatshops.

Everyone knows that sitting down for long periods of time increases the risk of disability, diabetes and heart disease.

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This comprehensive yet inviting-to-read guide has been completely updated to cover today's most critical management topics--from company culture to new technologies.

Respect and understanding between colleagues is essential in any healthy, productive, equal-opportunities workplace.

Find your focus with this transformative guide to organizing your work life.

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This handbook presents workplace training, employee development, and organizational learning from the primary point of view of industrial organizational psychology.

Nearly all managers dream of being inspiring leaders who elicit the most from their people.

The global COVID-19 pandemic forced everybody to rethink how they operate and the role that digital plays in business and in our lives.

This book explores the growing phenomenon of the social media storm in the context of educational establishments.

Workshift is a blueprint for organizations transitioning into the virtual workplace, where employees are always connected, and work is no longer a destination.

Written for those struggling to manage a workforce with incompatible ethics, values, and working styles, this book looks at the root causes of professional conflict and offers practical guidelines for navigating multigenerational differences.

Elevate your team's performance.

This book will help HR managers and founders/owners develop a formal process within the company and also provide insights from family firms on how to manage sensitive topics ranging from family member compensation; family member appraisal, etc.

In this updated edition of a groundbreaking classic, Alice Kessler-Harris explores the meanings of women's wages in the United States in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, focusing on three issues that capture the transformation of women's roles: the battle over minimum wage for women, which exposes the relationship between family ideology and workplace demands; the argument concerning equal pay for equal work, which challenges gendered patterns of self-esteem and social organization; and the debate over comparable worth, which seeks to incorporate traditionally female values into new work and family trajectories.

Workplace conflict is inevitable.

Thirty million presentations will be given today.

Asking a boss about more responsibility, an inappropriate coworker, or for some extra help can be scary!

Greenwashing is an emerging trend that seeks to overemphasize the sustainability practices by companies to their customers.

An indispensable guide to dealing with challenging, childish boss behavior and building a great career, with laugh- out-loud humor built in.

Psychological Management of Individual Performance is a unique combination of contributions from an academic and a practitioner for each topic.

Research shows you have a 50% chance of hiring the right employee and a 50% chance of hiring the wrong one.

The ultimate guide to electronic records management, featuring a collaboration of expert practitioners including over 400 cited references documenting today's global trends, standards, and best practices Nearly all business records created today are electronic, and are increasing in number at breathtaking rates, yet most organizations do not have the policies and technologies in place to effectively organize, search, protect, preserve, and produce these records.

An edited book in the Critical Perspectives on Work and Employment Series that is associated with the annual International Labour Process Conference, it focuses on job quality: debates, developments, issues and trends; workplace practice and interventions.

Influence is an essential component of leadership.

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Despite real progress, women remain rare enough in elite positions of power that their presence still evokes a sense of wonder.

The fresh approach taught in this indispensable guide will transform passive groups of disparate people into the effective teams of leaders you didn't know was possible to have.

The relationship between the number of hours worked and productivity has long fascinated economists and management.

How Chinese characters triumphed over the QWERTY keyboard and laid the foundation for China''s information technology successes today.

The definitive guide for using social media to build more effective organizations Today's networking technologies-wikis, blogs, and social networking sites-are changing how we build professional relationships and work collaboratively.

The key to advancing gender equality?

"e;A powerful and inspiring look 'inside the tent' of Mercedes-Benz that will help you learn how large companies make big changes in short timespans.

TWO E-BOOKS IN ONE The Starbucks Experience The Starbucks Experience contains a robust blend of home-brewed ingenuity and people-driven philosophies that have made Starbucks one of the world's most admired companies, according to Fortune magazine.

'That's not my job.

This book will examine the history of robotics and explicate what massive automation means for the present and future of labor in all its forms, from mills and factories to the white-collars offices of suburbia and more.

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Proven techniques for dealing with workplace issues successfully Do you dread going to work?

Put an end to miscommunication and inefficiency-and tap into the strengths of your diverse team.

Managing employees in today's rapidly evolving workplace can sometimes feel like negotiating a minefield.

Brave Together is a powerful book that can transform the lives of leaders, creators, or anyone looking to shape the future.

Learn how to fuse today's data science tools and techniques with your SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.